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The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-01-01
FINE WRITING PAPER,
American Workmen Learn How to Pro.
duce the Best Grades at Small Cost.

american "orkmen Learn How to Pro-
duce the Best Grades at Small Cost.
Passing by a stationer's window. a
reporter saw therein the involvement
1920 sheets of this note paper for 20
cents Stepping inside, the dealer, in
answer to the reporters queries, said:
"Writing paper is now cheaper in thi $
country than ever 1t was. Manufact.
urers have learned how to work into it
the maximum of wood pulp and the
minimum of rag. There are writing
papers made o that VIC can buy at %
cents a ream-three-pound paper. We
don't keep it. though it has a sale in
country towns. 1t is nothing but ordi.
narily good newspaper, calendered.
SIN 1873, when the panic came, all
the paper mills were running on medium
grades of paper, which was then the
best made j in this country. The panic
destroyed the market for this grade of
paper, as there was a glut. Previous to
this time the finest papers were all I'M
ported. The demand for imported pa
pers continued. Our mills kept a num-
Der OF their best %workingmen and began
experimenting on the better grades of
paper. When the panic came there was
little paper in our showcases that was
not made in Ireland, England or France.
Now there isn't a nickel's worth of i'm
ported paper in those cases. American
workmen soon got to making as good
or ever better papers than were made
abroad. When people nowadays hold
up a paper to see the water-mark, they
need not think because it shows a for
cign name that it is imported. 1t is as
easy to put such a water-mark there by
American as by foreign manufacturers,
and our paper is better in quality than
the foreign, and sold at half the price.
"Ihe cheapest papers, the wood
pulps. have nc fiber and no strength,
Besides, with the wood pulp is used
mort or less clay. Wood pulp is bleach.
ed with chemicals, and when such pa.
per gets old it becomes yellow. Some
OF the clay and wood papers, il i'm.
mersed in water, will dissolve, leaving
nothing but pulp. The cheap papers
must have a hard finish to be written
upon. Papers with a rough finish must
be OF linen stock, or writing upon them
would be like writing upon blotting pa
per. The best paper Is made from pure
linen. Much Of it is supplied by shirt
factory cuttings. Every time linen is
washed some Of the strength Of the fiber
is destroyed; for that a the best
paper requires new incn."--hdianap-
oils Journal.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-01-01
HE GOT A HOME.

POOR Little Humpbacked Joe. the v.,.
boy. Saved His Money and Go, NJ.
Wish. III
In a Newsboys' Home a visitor oh,
served a child's high-chair STANDING !,
a corner of the dining-room.
Have you a child here?" he asked
the matron.
mo, That is our little Joe's," She
said.
A sudden silence followed. Eve,
the boys standing near checked their
noise and skirmishing for a few min.
utes.
"Who was Joep" asked the visitor.
IA little fellow said the matron
'who came to us when he was but sty
years old. He was a humpback and 4
cripple, never having grown after he
was five. But he was a bright, push.
ing little fellow, and a very affectionate
child. He slept here and took most Of
his meals here. That is his chair. l.
l gave it to him. The superintendent
said | favored him. Well, l was fond
of Joe. We have a savings bank into
which the boys put their pennies or
dimes every week. IT gives them the
habit of economy. Joe began saving
when he first came to us. He would
bring his five or ten cents every Satur.
day, laughing.
"Im saving up to have a home Of
my W when I'm grown up he would
say.
HE had neither father nor mother,
ror any kinsfolk, and don't know
what was the boys idea of a home Of
his own. He was very happy here-a
sort of ruler among the other boys.
Yet he went on saving, and always for
that purpose. He was never a strong
boy, and when he was sixteen a heavy
cold he took went tn his lungs If nnly
needed a week or two to make an end
OF his poor little body. One day he
said to me. just after the clergyman
had been with him: That money I've
saved--it will be enough to pay the
doctor and buy a coffin for me-
"'But, joe l said, how about the
home of your ownP'
she did not answer me at first, and
then he smiled, saying: That's all
and he held my hand tight.
I'll have it. That's all right
"The next day it was all over. We
took Joe's money and paid the doctor
and bought him a coffin. 1t didn't need
a big one. The boys dubbed together,
ten cents each, and bought a
pillow Of white roses, with Our
|oe,' on it. Every boy got a tag Of
on his arm to go to the funeral.
de had his own home then, sir. But
wherever he was, l think the roses
must have pleased him."
She fell behind as we passed on, and
lusted little Joe's chair with her apron,
it reverently apart into a quiet
orner.- Youths Companion.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-01-01
EARTH-EATERS
How the Otomacs Prepare Their Winter
supplies of Potter's Clay.

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Supplies of Potter's Clay.
Baron Won Humboldt says that in all
tropical countries the natives show al
almost irresistible desire to swallow
earth: and not alkaline earths, which
they might be supposed to crave in or
der to neutralize acid, but unctuous
and strong smelling clay. Women on
the Magdelena river, while shaping
earthen vessels on the potter's wheel,
put large Jumps of clay in their mouths
and it is often necessary to contine
children to prevent them running out
to eat earth Immediately after a fall of
rain. Humboldt, in descending the
Orinoco, passed a day with the earth
eating tribe of Indians called Otomacs,
and thus describes the peculiar diet and
habits of the people: The earth which
the Otomacs eat is a soft unctuous
clay. a true potter>s clay. of a yellow
ish-gray color, due to a little oxide Of
iron. They seek for it on the banks Of
the Orinoco and Meta, and select it
with care. as they do not consider all
clays equally agreeably to eat. They
knead the earth into balls of about five
or six inches in diameter, which they
burn or roast by q weak fire until the
outside assumes a reddish tint. The
balls are remoistened when about to be
eaten. A very intelligent monk. who
had lived twelve years among the In
dams. assured us that one of them
would eat from a pound to Il pound and
a quarter in day. If you inquire of
an Otomac about his winter provisions
he will point to the heap of clay balls
stored in his hut After mentioning
other instances. Humboldt con-
cludes as follows: I'VE fine the
practice of eating earth dihused
throughout the torrid zone, but
accounts have also come from the north
according to which hundreds of cart
loads Of earth containing infusoria are
said to be annually consumed by the
country people in the most remote part
of Sweden, and that in Finland a kind
of earth is occasionally mixed with
BREAD The Ptrt1vians, according to
Nodllna. eat a understanding clay. the
inhabitants of Guinea minglc clay with
their bread, and the negroes of jamaica
are said to eat earth when other food
is deficient. According to %Labillardiere,
the inhabitants of New Caledonia APP
pease their hunger with a white friable
earth, said to be composed of ~magnesia,
silica, oxide of iron and chalk. We
must add to this list Siam. Siberia and
hamtschatka as countries of clay
eaters.-Intcrior.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-01-01

"'WelI. replied, 1 wish YOU and
John Henry to understand that l shall
punish him every time he wilfully dis
obeys me-
You riH?.'
Il certainly will
But. lookee here, sir: that's put
tin John Henry on an ekal with the
rest of EN-, amt it"
Certainly it is
"'Weli. that amt fair
.Why notg
"''Cause he's a plague sight smarter
n any the rest of EN-. He can tigger
clear into partial payments, an him
only thirteen years old
"'Well. what of that?'
can he's nearly through the third
part Of geography
81 know that
can he's been studyin' grammar
an phys ology two terms, an not a boy
or girl in the deestrict can beat him
speakin' pieces. He can write compost
tons. too
al admit it. But what has all this
to do with my not furnishing him if he
deserves it:?'
"'Why, if you lick m same as you
would any ordinary tirst-reader an
mental 'rithmetic boy, amt it putin
him down to the same level with such
boys. an aint that cal'lated to discour-
age him?'
Il failed to see the force of this argu-
ment, and John Henry suffered a good
many 'discouragen,ents' that winter, to
his W and his mothers great amaze
ment. Youths Companion.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-01-01
VERY DiSCOURAGING,
One OF the Trials Experienced by Teach
ers in Some Rural Districts.

One OF the Trial Experie need by Teach
ers in Some Rural Districts.
Ono Of the trials with which teachers
n rural districts have to contend is the
manner in which certain iniudicious
parents encourage or uphold their
children in making mischief at school.
A teacher gives The following account
Of his experience with an unruly pupil
ard his unwise mother: THE boy was
said to be the 'smartest' in the district,
aud he and his mother had no doubt as
to the correctness of this statement.
They were also inclined to think that
the boys vaunted smartness placed
him beyond the pale of the ordinary
rules OF the school, and that he should
have the privilege of doing as he
pleased.
"He was. therefore. a very much sur
prised and an indignant boy when /
punished him severely one day for the
most uncalled-for and glaring violation
of the rules of the school. At recess
he ran home, and = few minutes later
returned with his mother, who came
into the Don with flaming eyes and
the stride of an Amazon.
"'Did you whip my sonp' she asked.
az did, madam ! coolly replied.
"'You didy
~ did
What for?'
"'For purposcIy disobeying the rules
of the school,
What rulcsp'
81 need not name them.'
well, I want you to understand
that John Henry amt used to bein'
whipped in this school, '
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-01-01
AN m
why She Would Rather Die Than Have .
Fire-Escape In Her Room.

There is a law which compels hotel
proprietOrs to have some sort Of a fire.
esape in every upper-story room in
their house. In the Girard House the
styles of escape used consist of a huge
rope, with hooks to grasp the window
ledge and a sliding arrangement by
which the guest may lower himself at
whatever speed he will. One Of these
Is placed in every apartment directly
under one Of these windows, and as
they are there for use rather than orna-
ment, their appearance does not en-
nance the beauty of the interior.
The other day a lady who wished a
room was shown to one of the most
elegantly furnished in the hotel. As soon
as her eye rested on the fire-escape she
turned to the clerk: II will not have
that thing there" she said, 'it is hide
GUS" But it is required by law,"he
replied. Cant you put it in the trunk
room at the end Of the hall?" she asked.
mo, madam, 1t must be where you can
utilize 1t at a moments notice." "Well,
them concluded the lady, II won't
take the room; I'll go where they don't
have fire-escapes-where the law Is
evaded-rather than have that ugly
thing there to remind me all the time
that may have to swing myself out OF
the window to save my life." And she
departed in disgust.-PAiadelphia Ba'
letin.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-01-01
SECRET OF POWER.
Great Careers Dependent on Moral Cour-
age and Self-Renunciation.

"6e IL Stli-
Every great career that has been re-
corded has had in it a large ingredient
of courage aud self-renunciation. Mr..
French, author of ''Ten Years Among
the Senator's remarks truly that the
Senators who have best succeeded in
serving their country were not always
the most brilliant and gifted, but the
men who placed their country first,
their reelection second; men who adj
vocated measures because they believed
in them with their whole hearts and
mind. The self-seekc~s shine, but sci.
dom WELD real and usclul power.
That this is the case in our schools and
colleges every one knows who has had
an opportunity to observe them. 1t is
the teacher who loves his subject and
loves his class that has weight, power
and success. The students deeply in-
terested in their chosen study gain tho
victory over it.
There are many men now among us
who. like Henry Clay. would rather be
right than President. The New York
ers tell a story of one of their recent
mayors which illustrates our meaning.
When he was first nominated for the
marorality. he wa invited to meet a
committee, from one of the "halls" to
receive its Endorsement, which was
then regarded as insuring an election.
The chairman addressed to him a speech
of compliment and congratulation,
which he concluded by handing him an
envelope, saying:
Here are a few pledges that you are
expected to make for the sake of the
party. Ii you will sign the paper in-
side this envelope it will be held in
escrow by me as a sacred trust. 1t will
be a bond of mutual goodwill between
us, and will strengthen our ranks SO
that defeat will be impossible"
The candidate, as soon as the speaker
resumed his seat, rose and spoke as
follows:
"Gentlcmen, the post you promise
me is one of great honor. would be
glad to be mayor of New York. I am
a candidate, and desire an election.
OF that | make nc secret. But l would
not deign to open this envelope, much
to give any such pledges as you
either verbal or written, to be
guaranteed success. That is my an
swer.'
He then tossed the envelope unopen.
upon the table, and left the room.
CHANGED that one of the committee
II man of real ability, who had
acute discernmcnt of character. He
the Endorsement of the candidate
because of that refusal, and his
influence prevailed.
"That II act,' said the mayor, not
|ong after his election, ''simple and
natural as it was, made me mayor of
This great city. It was a little thing,
but it did the business"
No; it was the right thing, and that
S why it did the business $3.50 Youths
ompanion.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-01-01

"A Boston woman, by way Of expcr.
iment, recently tied a pedometer to her
chin, and discovered that she talked
thirty'thlee miles between breakfast
and lunch.--Lite,
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-01-01
OUR BOYS AND GIRLS.
THE STREET OF BY AND BY.

Lads, with manly hearts and true,
Sturdy hands to carry through
High and bold e%ndeavor,
Shun the Street of BY and Byl
Go not near-I'll tell you why;
That's the road to Never.
Down the Street Of By and BY
He that stands to gaze will spy
Many a dreary token;
Ruined walls where grass has grown,
Wains of treasure overthrow,
Houses wrecked and broken.
All is failure. gloom, despair:
Cheerful hubbub huns not there,
Axe o hammer clashes;
Mist, and mold. and silence deep!
While the townsfolk browse or weep,
Der the whitened ashes.
Turn not down its winding track
Whose enters comes not back;
All. the woe, the pity!
Forward. lads, with earnest brow
Tread the busy street of Now,
On to Fortune City.
Little Folks.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-01-01

Newton Holt, at Roll Browns
ranch, two miles north Of Mount Idaho
undertook to ride q vicious, buckine
bronca. when 1t fell on him and crushed
his head and chest. He died in half an
hour.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-01-01
a GOOD OLD SOUL.

5 she ~H"Fe2lCd in Mating a Dry
Good, Crgk 5:prelnely Happy.
Customers lAe the one mentioned
below delight the souls Of the poor dry
goods clerks. who would have little
happiness in this life if it We're not fol-
occasional bits Of sunshine brought to
bear upon them by sweetly-disposed
old ladies from the rural districts. One
such amhled into a Detroit store the
other day,
whats a right good quality of on
bleached muslin with to-day3' she
asks.
From ten to twelve cents a yard
answered the clerk.
as it a yard wide2'
"Yes, ma'am.'
'Warrant il not to shrink
eyes. ma am
as it wuth any less by the hull
bolt?'
NO. maam.'
''Well. want wantin' any nohow.
| see some OH the counter an jist
thought Id ask. Tn after ca!liker to-
day
Yes. ma'am." says the clerk.
"What kind Of calico do you want?'
"Well. don't hardly know. 1t amt
fer myself; its fer Mary Jane Dixon,
Il O our neighbor wimmen. or sort O
cousin o mine rs I'd better say
What kind of calico did you say you
wanted. ma'am?"
We'll. | don't 'zactly know. Mary
Jane came a~runnin' over iist as | was
"startin' to git ready. an | had the
chickens to feed yet an so much on
my mind didn't pay much '~tention to
Mary Jane, She's sort O second cous-
in to
did you WANT dark or light print?"
MARY Jane didn't say 'speshly
which. I'd know right off, but seem
as its for Mary Jane Dixon, and her
bein' w second cousin to my man by
marriage, it makes me a little pertick-
Ter. Mary Jane amt over n above
easy to please mellow, AMI often says
to her. says /"
Here are both light and dark pieces,
ma am.
well, | know she don't want it too
darf nor yit too Light, an as to whether
she wants a tiggcrora stripe or a check
& plaid. I'm sure / don't know. If
she wG'n't Il second cousin by mar
to my mau I'd o said right out
TO her-"
Here is q pretty plaid piece,
lna'am."
Yes, so It's; but l do'no as Mary
Jane wants a plaid, an | don't recku=
member as ever see her wearin' a
tho She has got a wrapper that's
a sort Of a stripe, too. But as for an
out set stripe-'
How would you like this piece with
the little vine it.'
'Td like it well enough, but Mary
she's sort of curious. | wouldn't
it so it'd cit to her that l said it,
but she Is curious like. Why I've
knowed that woman To-"
Then You don't like this picceP'
"Why, yes; | guess l do. but l don't
know what Mary Jane would say about
It. You give me ten or fifteen samples
and Mary Jane can pick out the one
,ne she wants. I'm comm in ag'in
Saturday and can Git it then. Mary
Jane will want as much as thrce-quar-
Of & yard. and | do'no but she'll use
4 hull yard when she does buy, for it's !
or a kitchen apron, and she's a mid
Hin fat woman, and So"
The agonized clerk can bear no more.
he ships off half a dozen samples and l
lies TO the farther end of the store. I
where he crashes his teeth and froths
It the mouth in the impotence of his I
age and misery Detroit Free Press. .
VERY DISCOURAGiNG. I
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-09-14
OF BIRTHS AND
DEATHS.

An act of the Legislature, approved
March 20. 1887, provides that every person
who shall offciate at the birth of a child
shall make record thereof, and within
three months after such birth shall make
and deliver to the Recorder of Deeds of
the county wherein the birth took place, q
certificate 1nder his hand containing the
facts of such birth. It also provides that
every person who shall oficiate at the
burial of any deceased person shall make a
record thereof and within two weeks after
such death shall make and deliver, or send
by the due course of mail or express, or by
such other manner as will insure safe
transit, to the Recorder of Deeds of the
county wherein such death took place, q
certificate under his hand containing par.
ticulars of such death.
All certificates of births and deaths shall
be filed and recorded by the Recorder in q
book kept for that purpose, and the Board
of Commissioners of the several counties
shall provide blanks certificates, to be paid
for by the county, to be furnished to ply
sicians midwives and undertakers, to en-.
able them to carry out and comply with
the requirements of the act.
Failure to comply with the provisions
of the act is punishable by fine of not
less than $40 nor more than $50 for each
oflense, and wilfully making false Ger
tifcate of any birth or death is punishable
by fine not exceeding $500, or imprison-
meet in the county Jail for any period not
exceeding six months.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-09-14
THE NEW LICENSE ACT.

Following is the full text of an amend
ment to the License Act, which was passed
at the last session of the Legislature, and
approved February /, 1887:
Sec 20. The County Auditor shall
from time to time deliver to the Sheriff as
many of such licenses as may be required,
and shall sign the same and charge them
to the Sheriff provided, that before sign
ing or delivering any license to a Sheriff,
the Auditor shall fill out the license in
full, stating therein to whom said license is
issued, the kind of business authorized to
be carried on under the license, the room,
building and placewhere the business is to be
carried on, the dates when said license be-
gins and expires, and the amount of money
to be paid therefor, and shall at the same
time make entries of the same upon the
license is returned, by the Sheriff, unsold,
the Auditor shall cancel and file the license,
and note the fact and date of such cancella-
tion upon the stubs thereof. No Board of
County Commissioners shall audit or allow
any claim in favor of Sheriff until there
shall be filed with said Board the certified
statement of the Auditor that all settle
ments required by the 71st Section of the
Act of which this is amendatory, have
been made by said Sheriff. The amount
of all licenses issued to the Sheriff and not
accounted for shall be deducted before any
claim shall be allowed to Sheriff. No
county shall be liable to the Auditor, other
than for his official salary, for any fees or
for any services required of him under this
Act.
The construction placed upon this
amendment is that all persons requiring
licenses shall apply to the Sheriff for the
same, giving in the application descrip-
ton of the room or building in which the
business is to be carried on for which the
1icouso iS ;ssoad
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-09-14

| TO REGULATE HOUSES OF PROSTITUTION, DANcI
HOUSES AND HOUSES WHERE BEER, WINE OF
sPIRrTUous LIQUORS ARE SOLD.
The People OF the State, represented in
Senate and Assembly. do enact as fol
lows:
SECTION /. 1t shall be unlawful for any
| owner, or agent of any owner, or any
| other person TO keep any house OF iIi-fame,
or TO let or rent fer any length OF time
whatever TO any woman of ill-fame any
house. room or structure situated within
four hundred yards Of any schoolhouse OF
schoolroom used by any Of the public
schools in the State Of Nevada.
Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any
owner, or agent Of any owner. or any
other person 70 keep, let or rent for any
length OF time, or at all, any house front.
ing on the principal business street or thor.
oughfare Of any Of the towns OF this State
for the purposes Of prostitution, or for the
purpose Of keeping any dsnce-house, or
house commonly called "hurdy-house, -
or house where wine, beer or spirituous
liquors are sold or served by females or
female walters or attendants or when fe-
males are used or employed to attract or
solicit custom, nor shall any entrance or
section be made or used from the principal
business street or thoroughiare Of any Of
the towns Of this State.
Sec. s. Any persons violating the pro.
visions Of Sections one or two of this Act
shall be deemed guilty Of misdemesnos,
and on conviction, shall be fined not less
than twenty-five dollars. nor more than
three hundred dollars, or be imprisoned
in the County Jail not less THAI Ave nor
more than sixty days, or by both such
fine and imprisonment, in the discretion
Of the Court.
SEQ. 4. The provisions OF this Act
shall not apply to towns and cities now
incorporated.
SEC. s. In the trial OF ell cases arising
under the provisions Of this Act, evidence
of general reputation shall be deemed
competent evidence as TO the question Of
the ill.fame of any house alleged to be
so kept, and to the question OF the ill fame
OF such woman.
SEQ. 6. II shall be the duty Of the Dis
trict Attorney and Sheriff OF each county
In this State to see that the provisions of
this ACT are strictly enforced and carried
into effect, and upon neglecting 80 to do,
they or either Of them shall be deemed
guilty OF 9 misdemeanor In office. and may
be proceeded against as provided in SEQ
tions 63 and 72 inclusive OF sn Act en-
titled ''An Act relating to elections" ap-
proved March 12. 1878.
SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect and
be In force from and after the first day OF
May, 1887.